Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-28
State l1eps.

ground, IL Is Salu.
Eight suits against the Central YER
mont road have been brought by victims
of the Hartford disaster.
st. Johnsbury academy has 40 pupils,
said to be the largest number in any of
the State institutions.
A fve-year-old boy at West Brattle-
boro drives a pair of six-months-old
calves hitched to a small cart.
Captain and Mrs. Henry Mayo of
Burlington celebrated the 50th anniver-
sary of their marriage the other day.
1t is understood that the Rutland mar
BILE pool, known as the Producers Mar
BILE Co., will come to an end January
next.
Barbed wire fences are playing havoc
with horses this fall as usual. Six in one
lot in Georgia were mangled by it the
other day.
The Washington county potato crop is
nearly harvested and turns out to be
much below the average. Prices range
from 80 to 70 cents bushel.
w. Z. Fay's blacksmith's shop, car
riage mandatory and paint shop at
South Royalton have been burned loss.
$500; insured for 500 in the Vermont
Mutual.
A Putney man got but seven bushels
of sound potatoes out of GO dug, while
in Andover man who planted two acres
on shares received a bushel and half for
his work.
At Rutland, the other day, Chas.
Lambs young daughter was playing
about bonfire when her dress was
ignited, burning her so that she will
probably die.
Reports presented at the recent annual
session of the grand lodge of Good Tenn
plars at West Randolph showed that
there are now 20 lodges and $500 menu
bers and about 500 in the treasury.
George w. Robinson of Bennington
has been authorized by the battle-mOnu-
ment committee to collect subscriptions
to the amount of $4,000 for an iron
stairway to the monument, grading, etc
Charles Lincoln of Clarendon has made
the experiment of raising peanuts. He
sowed four seeds last spring, and has sew
eral plants loaded with ripe peanuts.
The growth is novelty in this latitude.
By the sudden stopping of the train,
four hands fell from gravel car at Man
chester Tuesday. One had both legs cut
off above the knee and will die, and an
other had both legs broken. The rest es-
N"BNo
The residents about Island Ponl are
excited just now over the findins of
mysterious skeleton. The clothing re-
manned, and also some gold and silver
coins, amounting to SIP. Apparently
the skeleton was that of an old man.
w. p. Rice of Kansas City, Mo-, for
merly superintendent of the Vermont
State prison, has purchased the Leaven-
worth Kan Vitnps for S1DD OOD and
Col. Il. A. Smith, for several years editor
of the Boston journal. is to be its editor.
Some fishermen while trolling in Lake
BomOseen, at Cast Teton, pulled to the
surface "A net containing with other fish
eight pike. weighing from to u pounds
apiece. The net was set in violation of
the law, and is in possession of the Cas-
Teton authorities.
The special town-meeting held at West
Rutland Saturday adopted the report of
the committee on the division of the town
from Rutland. The town voted to issue
IL bonds of $1,000 each and one of $500,
bearing . per cent interest and pay
able in 20 years-this to pay the indeb-
tedness caused by the separation.
The Bennington "Reformer" says that
the States attorney is preparing to bring
suits against the towns in that county
where the fines for liquor-selling have
been paid into the town treasury as the
law provides. 1t estimates that Benning-
ton village will have to pay over 81 1000
for fines collected in the past six years.
At the present time there are IS saw
ings banks, savings institutions and trust
companies in Vermont. with $3.50 de-
positors. an increase in number of 1857
over that of the year ending June 30,
1856. With this increase the amount de-
posted has also swelled to the sum of
Sl5,5S7 ,050.93, an increase during the
year of 81 1888, 0S7 .46.
Mrs. Mary Maud Watson of Hartford,
granddaughter of the late John Anderson,
the millionaire tobacconist who left
fortune in New York valued at between
81 ,000, 900 and 5000, 000 has settled her
claim against the estate for $4,000. She
was poorly equipped to continue the fight
for her share, which was 81, 40O, 900, while
her opponents were backed by millions.
Charles b. Woodruff of Rutland. COM
mission agent for Wilbur's shirt factory.
has been arrested in New York for steal
ing goods from the firm. He had also
been devoted to Il pretty clearinghouse
mistress, whose husband engaged de-
tective TO watch their operations. He
and arrested him for grand larceny,
holding him for trial.
The recent report of the Gem Yer
mont railroad shows that all debts .. ainst
the property, which has been in the ands
of receivers and trustees for - wears,
have been cancelled. There is no certain
~ as to the expenditures growing out of
the Hartford disaster because of pending
suits, as the directors say the Central
Vermont does not admit of any liability
on account of the accident.
A teamster at the Lincoln Iron works
at Rutland, named John MCGOWAN. met
with painful accident recently. While
at work unloading lot of old iron, a
rusty augur flew up and struck him in
the right cheek. 1t pierced through the
fleshy part of the face, knocked out two
teeth and protruded from his mouth.
The instrument could not be removed